Artikel
Nonexclusive competition under adverse selection
A seller of a divisible good faces several identical buyers. The quality of the good may be low or high, and is the seller's private information. The seller has strictly convex preferences that satisfy a single-crossing property. Buyers compete by posting menus of nonexclusive contracts, so that the seller can simultaneously and privately trade with several buyers. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a pure-strategy equilibrium. Aggregate equilibrium trades are unique. Any traded contract must yield zero profit. If a quality is actually traded, then it is efficiently traded. Depending on parameters, both qualities may be traded, or only one of them, or the market may break down to a no-trade equilibrium.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Theoretical Economics ; ISSN: 1555-7561 ; Volume: 9 ; Year: 2014 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-40 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Economics of Contract: Theory
- Thema
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Adverse selection
competing mechanisms
nonexclusivity
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Mariotti, Thomas
Salanié, François
Attar, Andrea
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Veröffentlichung
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The Econometric Society
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New Haven, CT
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2014
- DOI
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doi:10.3982/TE1126
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Mariotti, Thomas
- Salanié, François
- Attar, Andrea
- The Econometric Society
Entstanden
- 2014